The relationship between favoritism in school management and organizational justice: The sample of Afyonkarahisar

In this study, it was aimed to determine the relationship between the teachers' perceptions of favoritism in school management and organizational justice. The study was designed in the survey model. The sample of the study determined by simple random sampling method is consisted of 413 teachers in the city center of Afyonkarahisar. The study data were collected through "Organizational Justice Scale (Taşdan ve Yılmaz, 2008)" and "Scale On Favoritism In School Management (Erdem ve Meriç, 2012)". In the study, t-test for comparisons, one way variance analysis, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and descriptive statistics were used. According to the findings obtained in the study; teachers have a high level of organizational justice perception and a low level of favoritism perception in school management. In the study, according to the demographic characteristics of teachers, it was stated that there were no significant differences in their perceptions of organizational justice except for gender variable (school type, branch, age and seniority) while there were significant differences in their perceptions of favoritism in school management. Whereas the teachers' perceptions of organizational justice show statistically significant differences according to the gender variance, they don't show statistically significant differences according to the school type, branch, age, and seniority variances. In the study, it was found out that there were low-level, in the negative direction, significant relationships between the whole dimensions determining the teachers' perceptions of favoritism in school management and their perceptions of organizational justice. Keywords: Favoritism, School Management, Teacher, Organizational Justice.